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Laid-off Lab Technician. Hired Back as "Contract Worker." Joined the Other 48.6 Million Uninsured in 2010 (before healthcare reform)
(Interview 9/2010. Oil on linen 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 How the painting started. Some paintings paint themselves. This is one of them. Sometimes the paint takes the reins and the hand takes direction from the brushes. We artists just take the ride. I know from social media that this subject married the love-of-her-life. Got the nursing degree we talked about in our interview. And landed the nursing job as per her plan. I deduce from her good-natured posts that life i
Husband's Employer-Based Insurance Ended. Joann Left Uninsured, Untreated, Nearly Blind in One Eye
(Interview 2/2011. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Joann died in 2021 from congestive heart failure. She was 75. Her...
Self-Employed, Uninsured and No Way to Get Health Insurance (Before the Affordable Care Act)
(Interview 3/2010. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) created a safety net for people like...
Married Friend for his Health Benefits.(Affordable Care Act not yet law)
(Interview 2/2011. Acrylic on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I thought I had seen everything. In 2011 I was still naive. My dismay...
Laid-off. Lost Health Insurance. No Way to Treat Heart Condition until Affordable Care Act
(Interview 10/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 I've reviewed all Art As Social Inquiry's stories for this website....
Uninsured, Unchecked Ulcerated Mole, Malignant Melanoma, Returned to Canadian Healthcare Too Late
(Interview w/ family 6/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x30 ins.) UPDATE 2021 One thing emerges from all the 2021 death portrait story...
Pregnant Young Woman. No Access to Prenatal Care. Dead at 24.
(Interview w/ family 11/2010. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Jenny died in 2009. The Affordable Care Act had not yet become...
Cancer History. Uninsurable on the Individual Market before the Affordable Care Act
(Interview 6/2009. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) How the painting started Update 2021 My sweet friend died in May 2012. Rest in peace, Nick. Forgive me. Nick's portrait is one of my very first for Art As Social Inquiry. In these early stages I was gobsmacked by every personal revelation. Nick was only just putting cancer behind him. He took a part time job with us. Then he asked me to let him buy into our small business group health plan. I said no. Only full time employe
Subject Entered a Lottery for Health Insurance. 47,000 Winners. Over 400,000 on Waiting List
(Interview August 2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 AdultBasic was part of the healthcare mishmash in Pennsylvania from...
Feared COBRA Lapsing. Knew She'd Be Uninsurable. (Before Affordable Care Act passed)
(Interview 6/2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I wasn't sure about this painting after I finished it. I knew I captured...
Early Death due to Insulin Rationing (before healthcare reform)
(Interview w/ Courtney’s mother, 3/ 2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Courtney Leigh Huber 1986 -2010 Update 2021 Only once did a family reject my request to paint a deceased love one's portrait. I think they thought I was a lousy painter. Or I was somehow exploiting their daughter's tragic death for my personal gain. I'm guessing the family thought both things. Most families trust me. I consider their faith a sacred trust. I will talk about what happened to their love
Children are Dependents on Parents' Policies
(Interview 7/2009. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) How it started... Update 2021 Alex was one of my very first subjects for ASI's...
Good Job. Good Health Benefits. Insurance is Tethered to Employment
(Interview 2/2010. Oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Good Lord. What was I thinking? A one word portrait story? Hmmm...I...
Lost Health Insurance After a Divorce. Scrambling to get General Anxiety Order Treated in 2010
(Interview June 2010. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 I tracked him down on the internet. Up to a point. He bid farewell on...
Pasture-Based Pregnant Farmer. Medicaid before the Affordable Care Act
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) (Interview 1/2010) Update 2021 I grew to love this painting over the years. I didn't love it at first....
Uninsured before The Affordable Care Act. She "waited out" her symptoms hoping they would pass.
(Interview 4/2009. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 This is another very early painting in Art As Social Inquiry's Healthcare...
Former Small Business Owner, age 55 (aka The Sweater)
(Interview 2009. il on canvas 40 ins. x30 ins.) Update 2021 I value this painting as a marker in this painter's development. There are...
Adult Child Stays on his Parents' Family Policy. Thanks, Obamacare!
(Interview 2009. Oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) Update 2021 Today, adult children are able to stay on their parents' family health...
2008 College Graduate - Aged out of family's health plan. New health law said he could go back on.
(Interview 2009, oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins. ) Update 2021 Oh that hair! In 2008 my son came home from college with his thick,...
Americans Don't Understand Their Health Insurance Coverage
Interview 6/2009. Oil on linen 40 ins. x 30 ins. Oil on canvas 40 ins. x 30 ins. I repainted John (top picture). This portrait (above) is the original 2009 portrait of John. I felt this early portrait did not capture enough of John. I will always be grateful to John. He understood my project immediately and insisted he be a part of it. I am very grateful for his support when I was just getting my footing. RIP, dear friend. Thanks for everything. xxoo How the painting star
Wannabe Fascist Boy King, Lazy Cosplay President, Convicted Felon, Sexual Predator, Wounded Child Mind. CONGRESS, DO YOUR JOB!
(2026, oil, acrylic on canvas, 48 ins. x 48 ins.) The oath of office the Representatives and Senators take as required by Article VI in the Constitution. Congress is failing us . Members of Congress take an oath to uphold the United States Constitution . This 119th Congress has ceded its power under the Constitution to the president, Donald Trump, thereby violating their oath of office. I wrote the story for this painting in the fall of 2025. I finished the painting in M
My Abortion Story
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) I had an abortion. I’m sharing my story to bear witness for all the women who have ever had to make...
Fell off Subsidy Cliff (before the American Rescue Plan ended it -- temporarily)
(Interview April 2021) (oil on canvas, 48” x 48”) Two paintings side by side. Oil on canvas, 48" x 48" ea. "Without Frank" oil on canvas 48 ins. x 48 ins. See "For Sale" page Update 2022 This portrait consists of 2 paintings. One stays in the Art As Social Inquiry (ASI) Healthcare in the US series. The other will be separated from Frank’s death portrait, be sold , and go on to live in a world without Fran
Enough
(oil, acrylic on canvas, 48 ins. x 60 ins.) “Enough” hangs upside down until President Trump no longer occupies the White House. Once gone, I will flip the painting right side up with our American flag on top. I depict the President as a "king." He has flaunted the rule of law and behaved in a narcissistic, self-aggrandizing, divisive way with no apparent understanding of his duty to serve ALL the American people and not himself. Once the painting is flipped right side up wit
Big World, Small Man
(oil on canvas, 36 ins. x 72 ins.) This painting “Big World Small Man” is my response to Donald Trump as President of the United States...
Nuclear Trump
(oil on canvas, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) This painting is a thank you to Republican heroes, both high profile public servants and citizen...
I'm With Her
(30 ins. x 40 ins., oil on canvas) Hillary Clinton faced Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election. She won the popular vote but...
Corey
(Oil on canvas, 72 ins. x 36 ins.) (Interview with Corey’s parents, 4/ 2014) Update 2021 I was saddened to see that a lot of the links...
Dina Nina
(oil on linen, 40 ins. x 30 ins.) (Interview 5/2015) Artist’s Note (2015) Dina Nina Martinez is a transgender woman. Her journey to...
Nam. Can We Stop Now?
(47 ins. x 46 ins., acrylic on paper ) This painting is about examining/feeling the past so we are free to make peace in the present. We...
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